International: Apartheid becomes law

Aboriginal cooperative begins

The Pindan Cooperative movement is formed from the Pindan pastoral strikers. Aboriginal people make a living as miners of alluvial minerals, with the goal of gaining land tenure. Many activists are inspired by the cooperative movement.

Pindan group, 1958
These men came to Perth as witnesses in an action against Middleton, the Commissioner of Native Welfare, in 1958.Source: Don McLeod, How the West was Lost, self published, Port Hedland, 1984

Pindan Group yandyingSource: Don McLeod, How the West Was Lost, self published, Port Hedland, 1984.